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male then sat on the egg, (there was still only one) for some 
time, when by sending a man up above, to throw down stones, 
he (the Falcon not the man) flew off and I got a shot at, and 
wounded him. He managed to get on to a tree over-hanging the 
precipice, and though I got as near to him as I could and took 
a pot shot, he was too far off, and sailed away down the khud 
(valley).” Subsequently he took the third egg. 
The extraordinary boldness exhibited by the female bird is 
very characteristic, 
The nest, as may be guessed from its age, and from having 
once at least served our larger Himalayan Vulture (No. 3) as 
a laying place, was a large irregular mass of sticks. Two egos 
were taken the first, and one the second time, but probably the 
normal number is four. I have seen two of the eggs, these are 
very beautiful—broad, very perfect ovals, slightly larger than 
the eggs of F. Jugger, and with shells of a somewhat finer and 
closer texture than those of these latter. The ground colour 
in both is a rich brick red, here and there faintly blotched and 
spotted with a darker shade, and with a few bold blotches and 
splashes, specks and spots of the deepest liver-colour ; strange to 
say, there are one or two pure white spots on the ground 
colour, and a white spot or blotch in the middle of almost every one 
of the larger liver-coloured blotches. In my whole series of 
Jugger’s eggs, I have none at all like these, although the eggs 
of both species are emphatically of the true Falcon type. ‘The 
eggs appear to me fully as big as the average run of Peregrines. 
They measure 2*1in length, by 1°66 and 1°68 in breadth. 
“The female measured,” (Captain Cock tells me,) “in the flesh: 
Length 18. Wing 13:5. Tail 6°5. The bill was light blue, 
dark at the tip ; cere and orbits light yellow; legs and feet a 
rather brighter yellow; irides deep brown. 
“Top, back and sides of head, nape, and upper back, very 
deep blackish brown, actually black on the sides of the head. On 
the nape, a few feathers dashed with fulvous red. From this 
point downwards towards the tail, gradually lighter and slatey, 
(slatey-b/ue I should call it) lightest on the rump and every 
where barred with dusky. From the base of the tail the 
slatey colour darkens, the end tipped with light rufous or fulvous, 
the inner webs barred light fulvous, and the visible surface 
barred like the back. The quills very dark brown, nearly 
black at the tips, the inner webs barred with fulvous, and each 
with a narrow fulvous edge, whiter in the secondaries and 
tertiaries. Shoulders slatey, barred as in the back. Under- 
neath the throat, and two long scallops into the blackish brown 
sides of the neck, white changing into fulvous. The crop or 
